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FirstWork
FirstWork is a San Francisco-based, YC S24 enterprise AI company building autonomous agents that automate workforce operations for frontline and seasonal labor. Its platform handles document verification, credentialing, continuous compliance, and worker onboarding inside a company's existing systems, cutting time-to-hire and onboarding by up to 80%. Founded in 2024 by Vardhan Kapoor (ex-Remitly, Deliveroo) and Shubham Choudhary (ex-Deel, Rippling), FirstWork raised a $5M seed round led by Gradient and serves staffing, logistics, delivery, and care companies including Deel, Job&Talent, Relay, and Wonolo.
MyPass Global
MyPass Global is an Australian B2B SaaS company that runs a worker-owned digital Skills Passport and compliance platform for highly regulated, high-risk industries such as mining, oil and gas, energy and construction. Workers store verified qualifications, licences, medicals and background checks in one place and grant employers permission to view them, while site owners and contractors get real-time visibility of workforce compliance. Founded by Matt Smith and headquartered in Perth and Sydney, the platform serves more than 1,500 organisations and over 160,000 verified workers, and raised a A$7.5M Series A led by OneVentures in February 2025 to expand across the Americas.
TransCrypts
TransCrypts is a blockchain-based digital identity and credential verification company that lets people own and instantly share verified employment, income, education, and health records. Founded in 2020 by cousins Zain Zaidi and Ali Zaheer, it replaces the slow, costly background-check pipeline with permission-based, fraud-proof verification - including JustScreen, billed as the world's first free background check service. Backed by Pantera Capital, Mark Cuban, and others, it serves millions of users and hundreds of enterprises, including Fortune 100 and 500 companies.